The Re-appearing Shadow of 1918: Trends in the Historiography of the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic

摘要

This article Traces the ways in which the subject of the ";Spanish"; Influenza pandemic of 1918-19. the worst short-term pandemic of modern times. has been treated (or ignored) by historians over the last 86 years. In doing so, it identifies four distinct surges of interest in the topic, each producing a different conception of this pandemic as history: as epidemiology, as high drama, as sodal science and ecology, and as scientific saga. It seeks to explain these differing conceptions as part of a wider phenomenon, viz., how an event can be neglected, discovered, made, and re-made as history.